Li Yirou looked at the spiritual ginseng that had not yet bloomed, but she felt that the surrounding spiritual energy was converging towards it, as if it had opened a spiritual gathering array itself.
A closer look at the cluster of green fruits atop its head revealed an unusual arrangement. She wondered if she was being overly suspicious; it looked like the arrangement of the flags in the Five Elements Spirit Gathering Array, only with a few more positions. Could it be that ginseng wasn't absorbing wood spirit energy, but rather the spirit energy of the Five Elements?
Li Yiru wanted to observe further, but Fu Xiaolu stood beside her and her spiritual consciousness quietly probed towards the spiritual ginseng.
"Don't move." The back of the small shovel in her hand that she was using to dig spiritual plants pressed against her arm, blocking her from moving forward.
Fu Xiaolu's heart stirred, and for some reason, she subconsciously obeyed and withdrew her spiritual consciousness. However, even the fluctuations of her spiritual consciousness, which she quickly withdrew after exploring halfway, were detected by the spiritual ginseng. The gathering of spiritual energy suddenly stopped, and Li Yirou thought it was over.
When little Duobao discovered the spiritual ginseng, he quietly moved along her sleeve and under the huge dead leaves. Li Yiruo secretly explored it with her spiritual consciousness, and Duobao jumped to the vicinity of the spiritual ginseng in a few steps. However, when Fu Xiaolu activated her spiritual consciousness, the spiritual ginseng suddenly disappeared.
As expected of a ginseng, it escaped so quickly… Li Yirou couldn't blame anyone. After all, she had seen it earlier but didn't know what to do, so she stopped there to observe. And who knew if it was Xiao Duobao who ran over and startled the ginseng?
When Fu Xiaolu came over and took out the ginseng-catching rope, she didn't dare to set up the formation. Because the Changsheng Jue could sense the vitality of the spiritual ginseng, it was more sensitive than ever before. She knew that the spiritual ginseng would detect any movement.
Little Duobao also crawled back into Li Yiru's sleeve, humming.
"Master!" The strange fire's tone was excited, and Li Yirou's heart skipped a beat, and she became excited too. Could it be that Duobao also had the ability to steal spiritual plants?! But its little claws were empty, and its cheek pouches were flat. There was nothing there. It couldn't be.
But Xiao Duobao is already a rare monster, a treasure that Taxue found for her. Even if it can only find the spiritual plant Ganoderma lucidum, Li Yiru is already very satisfied.
So she only felt a slight regret, without any remorse, and scratched Duobao's chin in her sleeve.
"My bad." Fu Xiaolu sighed. This spiritual ginseng must be more than a hundred years old, otherwise it wouldn't have escaped so quickly. Fu Xiaolu watched an opportunity slip through her fingers, and she felt a surge of regret. If she hadn't acted rashly, perhaps Fang would have found a way.
"It has nothing to do with Senior Sister. I didn't know what to do, so I just watched it run away." Li Yiru's expression remained unchanged for a thousand years. Fu Xiaolu then realized that he was not nervous before, and now he was not angry at all. His emotions were very stable.
This made Fu Xiaolu appreciate her even more. She rarely saw such a stable male cultivator. Not to mention, he was really good at assisting.
Fu Xiaolu put the centipede corpse into the storage bag, and Li Yiru collected the remaining Ganoderma lucidum and put it into the spirit sealing box.
The three female cultivators were recovering, and they didn't forget to give Fu Xiaolu a look. Xia Yanhong asked curiously, "What were you looking at just now?"
"Yeah, why are we both in a daze?" Lu Si smiled at Fu Xiaolu.
When they heard them say that they had missed a spiritual ginseng, which was extremely sensitive and disappeared at the slightest fluctuation of spiritual consciousness, the three of them froze their originally ambiguous smiles on their faces, which were quickly replaced by expressions of regret.
Fu Xiaolu smiled and shook her head, "It's okay, we still have many days." After that, she took out a knife and dismantled the green-legged centipede in the formation.
Xia Yanhong, wanting to help her sister, asked about Li Yirou's experiences. Hearing that Li Yirou was from the Western Realm piqued her curiosity. She also lamented the dangers of the surrounding mountains after hearing that demonic beasts were everywhere.
"It's so hard for ordinary people to live." Xia Yanhong and the others were willing to take risks in order to improve themselves, while ordinary people or low-level cultivators like them could choose to settle down in Wuji City.
"Yeah..." Li Yiru's face showed a bit of regret, heartache, and nostalgia. In short, her expression was extremely complicated.
"But Junior Brother Fang's cultivation is indeed solid." Xia Yanhong thought she had brought up bad memories of him facing the ferocious beast, so she changed the subject. In fact, she was walking in the direction Li Yiruo had led.
"Yes, Junior Brother Fang's support is almost better than yours." Zhang Xueyan complimented him with a touch of politeness towards someone she didn't know well. But she also meant it. After the previous battle with the Green-legged Centipede, the other Junior Brother had begun to change his mind. He felt that he wasn't really a drag on Fu Xiaolu and would be a great assist to their team.
"Yeah." Li Yirou nodded and sighed, "That was all back in the West Realm, when my Taoist partner and teammates and I often..."
Before she could finish her words, Xia Yanhong's voice unconsciously rose several degrees, interrupting her story, "You have a Taoist partner?!!"
Fu Xiaolu paused with the knife she was using to dismantle the green-legged centipede, and the faint smile that had been on her face as she listened to their conversation froze.
She looked at Xia Yanhong with confusion, "What?" as if she had no idea what they were thinking.
Aside from Fu Xiaolu, Zhang Xueyan was the calmest among the group and quickly found an excuse. "Nothing. She was just a little surprised that you're looking for a Taoist partner at such a young age."
"So she didn't come with you?" Lu Si was surprised for a moment, but then calmed down. Now that things had come to this, he had to smooth things over so that he wouldn't notice Xiaolu's feelings. It would be better to just pretend to be chatting with a temporary teammate.
They actually wanted Fang to join the team, but they were afraid that Xiao Lu would be unhappy, so they decided to stop associating with him after this secret realm was over.
"She met with an accident while hunting monsters. That's why I wanted to live in another place and came here." Li Yiru lowered her eyes slightly, her expression gloomy, as if this really happened.
The strange fire watched its master coax several female cultivators into a daze and rolled around in the space with laughter. The red-lined python didn't understand why, but also followed its favorite flame, hissing and laughing with its tongue sticking out.
"No... I'm sorry." Lu Si looked embarrassed. She couldn't help but empathize with him when she saw him revealing such a heavy wound to someone else and seeing how sad he looked.
Zhang Xueyan thought it was better to know it early so that Fu Xiaolu wouldn't develop a liking for him and then find out about the situation later, which would make Xiaolu even more upset.
"It's okay." Li Yirou wanted to add, "She will always be in my heart," but she felt that this sentence was too cheesy, so she decided to stop there and said no more, only adding a little affectionate eye contact.
Everyone saw Fang Ye had returned to his indifferent expression, as if only the mention of his deceased Taoist partner could stir his emotions. He must have had a very good relationship with his Taoist partner...
There are no such infatuated people these days. The monks who are on the front line are living dangerous lives. They don’t have so much time to spend on feelings. They are mostly focused on improving their cultivation.
If Xia Yanhong didn't feel bad for Xiaolu, she might even be a little moved by his infatuation.
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